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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18322, 12 August 1921, Page 4

The Mayor (Mr J. S. Douglas) has received advice from the secretary of the Board of Trade that it is not convenient for the board’s representative to meet today those persons who are interested in the proposed scheme for the sale of fish direct to the public. Ho suggested that the meeting should be arranged for next Friday, and the Mayor’ has replied stating that he will call the meeting for that date. In addition to those directly concerned in the matter the local members of Parliament will be invited to the conference. The need for the exercise of care- in addressing correspondence is illustrated in the fact that a letter, posted at Lyttelton on April 26, addressed to Messrs Vernon and Houchin, of Dumbarton, containing cash ond an order for fruit, reached the addressees on August 10, after travelling to Dumbarton, Scotland, and back.

The Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Club has been well patronised lately, and especially in the evening. Members of the Springbok and the New Zealand representative football teams have availed themselves of the club’s invitation to take advantage of the various facilities provided.

The Arbitration Court has filed an award in the Otago Drivers dispute which will apply to the whole of the Otago and Southland district. The award embodies the recommendation of the Conciliation Council with a few small variations that were 1 agreed to by the parties. An order has been made amending the Oamaru butchers’ award by fixing new hours. The closing hours are now 5 p.m. on four days in the week, 5.30 p.m. on one day, and noon on Saturday. The total hours are not to exceed 48, and the amendment comes in force next Monday. The Dunedin Fire Brigade employees’ award, embodying the Conciliation Council recommendations with minor amendments agreed to at the hearing, has also been filed. The following applications for assistance were dealt with at yesterday’s meeting ot the Otago District Repatriation Board. Business Loans: Nine applications were received of which two were approved; one was held over; and six were declined. Furniture Loans: Twenty-three applications wore received of which 17 were approved; one was held over; and five were declined. Subsidised Workers: Fourteen cases were dealt with, of which training was approved in two; six, who h a d completed training, had their payment of withheld subsidy approved; further training was approved in three cases; and three oases were held over. University and Technical Training: Six cases were dealt with and all approved. At a short sitting of the City Police Court yesterday, before Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., Rose Winifred Moir was fined the amount of the cab fare (7s 6d) on a charge of drunkenness, the alternative being 24 hours’ imprisonment.

T'homas Alexander Dale, a seaman, whose home is at 24 Eden street, North Dunedin, was found dead at 5.40 p.m. yesterday at the Excelsior Hotel. The body of the deceased, who is a single man and a returned soldier receiving treatment as an outpatient at the Dunedin Hospital, showed no signs of violence other than marks of a fall. He evidently mistook his way and entered the bottle cellar down a right-of-way, where he was found sitting on a box with his head between his legs in a stooping position. The licensee (ivir W. Quint) notified the police and Dr Evans, who was called in expressed the opinion that death had taken place some time before.

A very fine crop of lucerne is growing on Mr il. C. Steven's farm at Kelso. The crop was grown in drills 21in apart, and is a fine advertisement lor tins method ot cultivation against wiiidu some criticism has been levelled.

When intimating at the annual meeting of the Otago Expansion .League jast night that the league intended to launch a campaign to secure the support of local bodies, Mr J. Inglis Wright claimed that the Otago League was the first ot its kind, not only in New Zealand, but in all Australasia, and that it had since been followed by other leagues in various towns and by the Hundred 'thousand League ot Sydney. It was hard, he said, to see the daughter leagues bo well supported financially while the Otago Expansion League had difficulty in obtaining the support to which it was entitled.

The question of freight rates on butter and oliecso was discussed at a conference of representatives of dairy factories and associations of the dominion and representatives of export houses and shipping interests on Wednesday (reports a Wellington Press Association telegram). No report of the proceedings was furnished to the press. It is understood, however, that it is unlikely that there will be any reduction in freight rates at the present time, but that the whole position will be reviewed in January next year. This decision is apparently in line with an agreement arrived at m London on July 18, when the committee appointed by Mr Massey’s conference of New Zealand Producers and shipowners exhaustively reviewed the position of shipments and freights generally from both points of view. * A Greymouth Press Association telegram states that the following was the result of the ballot at the State mine in connection with the secretaryship of the Miners’ Federation : —P. O’Rourke 194, ,W. Balderstone 41, I?. H. Grant 20, J. O’Brien 13, W. H. Smith 9, and W. Franks 1.

No reply has yet come to hand from Wellington regarding the work on the main north railway line, which is still under consideration by the engineers. 'lhe Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister of Education), speaking at the ceremony of laying the inundation stone of a new brick ini ant scnool, tne first of its kind in Northern Wairoa, said that it would be an ill day when school committees were abolished (says a Dargaville Press Association message). They were the direct representatives of tbe parents, and had saved the country thousands of pounds in the cause of education. While he was in power he would not attempt to weaken the power of local school committees.- He deplored the fact that nearly 40 per cent, of our boys left school with only the Fourth Standard certificate, and in his new proposals, some of which he outlined, was a scheme to get hold of these boys. He stated that the financial stringency was the only thing that stopped a lot of his proposed reformt being brought in, and he was hopeful that things would soon brighten up and allow him to carry out many much-needed reforms.

Some remarks on what i-. good and what is not good lor ohilcue.. m school were made by Mr H. E. Longworth (Director ot Physical Education), m answering a question alter bis address to teachers at .New Plymouth on Thursday (says the Taranaki Herald). There was certain furniture in the schools which he would say perhaps was not desirable, but the best had to be made of it. It was wrong to make children fold their arms at the desk, folded behind would be all right if the children did not tire and droop forward in consequence. To sit with the hands in the lap was perhaps the best attitude. A child could not ‘sit up straight’ all the time. During a long lesson it was better to let tbe children rest their elbows on the desks than to make them fold their arms. The speaker also advocated the giving of corrective exercises every quarter-hour in a long lesson, the exercise to be such as sitting up straight and seeing bow high the head could be raised. A tendency to chuckle on the part of some of the teachers waa noticeable when Mr Longworth told a questioner that it would be a good idea for the children in the infant department to bring a mat with them, and be allowed to lie down at times. Mr Longworth was quite serious, however. The soldiers in the convalescent homes and hospitals in Dunedin have, within the last month or two, manufactured a large number of baskets, trays, leather bags, and leather purses, and these will be offered for sale to the puiblio to-day on a stall at Jacobs’s corner. The sale commences at 9 o’clock. The soldiers may always be relied on to turn out articles of excellent workmanship, in designs that are neat and tasteful, and as they are offered at reasonable prices it is hoped the public will freely patronise the stall and clear it of its contents. The many visitors at present in town, as well as city people, will derive much pleasure from on inspection of the articles. The money obtained will be handed over to the men, less the cost of -material used in making the goods. A fire at 1.25 a.m. yesterday necessitated the services of the Brigade at a house in Parkhill avenue, Mommgton. The outbreak apparently arose from Ihe washhouse copper. A machine from the Central Station was soon in attendance, followed shortly by another from the South Dunedin Station. The building was only slightly damaged, to the extent of £ls or £2O. The premises are owned by Mr Craig and occupied by Mr B. Bell. A bush fire opposite the Jaw Hospital, Woodside, required the attention of the Fire Brigade on Wednesday afternoon. A paragraph published recently which illustrated the disadvantage of a high trade protective tariff compared what was supposed to be the landed price for English, white lead with the selling price in thoi commonwealth of Australian manufactured lead at £BS per ton, whereas the correct selling price in New Zealand for English lead should have been £72 10s. Tbe same line of Australian white lead can be imi ported by New Zealand merchants and sold to the painting trade at £7O per ton after paying duty and freights and the merchant’s profit. “When the warship Irresistible was mined and sunk during tbe bombardment of the Dardanelles in March, 1915, the, story was told of Williapn C. Burrows, who lost his life through going below at the last moment to save the ship’s oat. His mother, who lives in Auckland, received his gratuity a few days ago, the sum of £5. The Herald says Mr F. N. Bertram, M.P., Grey Lynn, has written to the naval secretory in Wellington, asking how this sum has been arrived at as being the gratuity due to a' man who gave his life while serving at sea. in the late war. He has also asked to -be furnished with, further particulars of the case.

Mr Will Lawson, Reuter’s representative with the Springbok team, commenting on the telegraphic arrangements for Saturday’s match at Invercargill, and the celerity with which messages were despatched, said that the result would bo known in Africa in 21 minutes, which was a record so far. The transmission of the news to the North Island was only a matter of two or three seconds. The arrangements for transmission made by the Invercargill telegraph department were so perfect that, as the results were telephoned from tho press table at the ground, they were transmitted instantly to Wellington, the cable terminus. According to the Superintendent of the Telegraphic* Department only about five seconds would elapse before tlhe result would be known in, Auckland. A new badge has recently been added to those which the observant boy scout may hope to win. ’lbis is the Artist’s Badge. The test is to draw subjects: (a) From, memory (to state on each drawing when and where the object drawn was seen); (b) from sight; (c) from imagination. The memory test is intended to develop the power to carry mental pictures of essential things and to draw them convincingly. The sight test is to develop tho power of thoughtful observation of structures and their functions, the power to decide which parts are essential, and ingenuity in inventing suitable touch and treatment for each part selected for representation. The imagination test is intended to develop readiness of resource in using stored up mental pictures for inventing moans to meet new requirements and emer-

gencies. Tho flood waters in the Green Island swamp increased by about Tin or Sin in depth and were over the road on the Green Island end of the bridge yesterday morning, when another attempt, this time with better success, was made to cut a race through the sandbank to the sea. Mr Westwood, county road inspector, with a strong detachment of county workmen, and several of tho landowners in the vicinity, made a start, and by 2 o’clock the water was running through, and by 3 o’clock, with tho mien stirring up the sand with their shovels, tho volume of water had increased to such an extent that Mr Westwood considered that with the absenoe of high tides and strong sou’-westers for a day or two, their efforts would be crowned with success. It is to be hoped that those most interested living near will visit the mouth of the river during the next few days and keep tho water running as strongly as possible now that it has got a good start.

A meeting of those interested in arranging for a special train to Invercargill to witness the Ranfurly Shield football match (Otago v. Southland) will be held in E. L Macassey and Co.’s auction rooms this afternoon at 4 o'clock.— Advt. Leave the traffic m your dust. Ride a Harley-Davidson motor cycle, and be first on the road. —W. A. Justice and Co., Otago agents. 292 Princes street. Dunedin.—Advt. Ladies patronise the pictures mostly Monday afternoons since becoming acquainted with “No-rubbing” in the morning.—Advt. Here’s a Plum.—2o only jute sofa squares, 7ft x 4ft, good colourings; usually 65s—to be cleared at 39s 6d each.—Mollisons (Ltd.), Advt. .... “Cheerio.” Conviviality and friendship suggest the bept—WaUon’s No. 10 whisky. —Advt. A. E. J. Blakeley, dentist, Bank of Australasia, corner of Bond and Rattray streets (next Telegraph Office). Telephone 1858. Advt. Save Your Eyes. —Consult Peter 6. Dick. D.8.0.A., F. 1.0., London, consulting and oculists” optician.—“ Peter Diok,” jewellers and opticians, Moray place, Dunedin.—Adel